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- From: goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: Calls With Area Code Prefixes
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA USA
-
-
- In article <telecom-v09i0530m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, dgc@math.ucla.edu
- writes...
-
- >Can anyone tell me exactly how calls with area code prefixes are
- >handled? Previous messages on the handling of 700 calls left me with
- >some questions unanswered. I think that there are basically 4 cases:
-
- >1. 1-800 prefix
-
- Two answers on 800 service. Today, they use the "NXX" method. Each
- of the NXX codes (i.e., 800-221, 800-222, etc.) belongs to one or
- another LD carrier. The local telco simply hands it off. Each RBOC
- owns a few of its own, too, for intra-LATA use. "Tomorrow" (R.S.N.),
- there may be a huge telco-owned collective data base indicating which
- carrier carries each 800 number. So you will be able to switch
- carriers without changing 800 numbers. The problem is delay: There's
- a finite time it takes the telco to send the lookup request through
- the SS7 network to the data base engine (SCP). It delays call
- processing by a few seconds. Other than that, the technique works
- well.
-
- >2. 1-900 prefix
-
- Like 800 service today, each 900 prefix is handed off to an LD
- carrier. I don't think there are plans to change it.
-
- Note that the caller's default carrier is not meaningful for these
- SACs, since they're destination-selected. The list of who owns which
- was posted in this Digest a couple years back. Note that these are
- not area codes but service access codes.
-
- >3. 1-700 prefix
-
- This means "carrier specific number", so it's handed off to the
- default or selected carrier. Each carrier has its own 700 number
- space to do with as they see fit.
-
- >4. All other prefixes
-
- If it's intra-LATA, the telco just routes it. If it's inter-LATA, it
- goes to the default or (10xxx) selected carrier, who figures out what
- to do with it.
-
- >Why couldn't US Telecom just have you dial 11+local number if 1+ calls
- >(other than 10+ calls) all go to it? Is there some requirement that
- >exactly 10 digits follow the initial 1? and couldn't that be handled by
- >having the customer dial dummy 1's either at the beginning (say 1111) or
- >at the end of the number (111) at the end?
-
- The RBOCs are under no obligation to provide "equal access" for
- intra-LATA calls; that's their own bailiwick. If they did provide it,
- they'd have to do it equally, like for inter-LATA calls. The
- numbering plan only has room for so many hacks. It does involve digit
- counting, etc.
-
- fred
-
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- From: David Lewis <nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com>
- Subject: Re: Calls With Area Code Prefixes (800 in particular)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
-
-
- In article <telecom-v09i0533m06@chinacat.lonestar.org>, goldstein@delni.
- enet.dec.com writes:
-
- > In article <telecom-v09i0530m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, dgc@math.ucla.edu
- > writes...
-
- > >Can anyone tell me exactly how calls with area code prefixes are
- > >handled? Previous messages on the handling of 700 calls left me with
- > >some questions unanswered. I think that there are basically 4 cases:
-
- > >1. 1-800 prefix
-
- > Two answers on 800 service. Today, they use the "NXX" method. Each
- > of the NXX codes (i.e., 800-221, 800-222, etc.) belongs to one or
- > another LD carrier. The local telco simply hands it off. Each RBOC
- > owns a few of its own, too, for intra-LATA use. "Tomorrow" (R.S.N.),
-
- As soon as 80% of BOC end offices are connected to the Signaling
- System 7 (common channel signaling) network. At least, that's the
- latest FCC ruling.
-
- > there may be a huge telco-owned collective data base indicating which
-
- Oh, please don't say "collective" in the same breath as "telco". That
- always makes people think of the other word that starts with "coll" --
- "collusion".
-
- A more accurate description of 800 Database Service (800 DBS) is that
- there will me 800 databases owned by each telco, with the appropriate
- information duplicated.
-
- > carrier carries each 800 number. So you will be able to switch
- > carriers without changing 800 numbers. The problem is delay: There's
- > a finite time it takes the telco to send the lookup request through
- > the SS7 network to the data base engine (SCP). It delays call
- > processing by a few seconds. Other than that, the technique works
- > well.
-
- If your phone subtends an end office which is SS7-connected, the delay
- is actually less than a second. Delays only really pile up if the end
- office can't send a query directly to the database, but has to hand
- off the call to a tandem via MF (Multi-Frequency -- inband) signaling.
- Then, it gets really bad. That's one large reason why the FCC
- mandated that the BOCs can't switch from the NXX method to 800 DBS
- until 80% of end offices (actually, it may be 80% of end office lines,
- but the economics fall the same way) are SS7-connected.
-
-
- David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej
- (@ Bellcore Navesink Research & Engineering Center)
- "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."
-
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